Steam's new in-game overlay offers some useful upgrades - and I'm particularly happy about one that exposes a controversial AI trick

• Steam is upgrading its in-game frame rate counter to be a full overlay
• This will provide a lot more details on what's going on under the hood with any given game, and your CPU and GPU's status too
• That includes whether frame generation is being used, exposing situations where it's been stealthily enabled, hidden in the background

Valve is beefing up Steam's built-in frame rate counter - which displays the frames per second (FPS) in the game you're playing - to provide a lot more info, including whether frame generation is being employed.

Frame generation is the tech used to boost FPS by adding in AI-generated extra frames - often called 'fake frames' by those who are less keen on the feature - as seen in Nvidia's DLSS, AMD's FSR, and Intel's XeSS.

Notebookcheck.net spotted that Valve has released a ...